New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft prior to the National Football League game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets on November 25, 2018 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. (Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire vi

The conduct policy mandates that owners, players and other employees refrain from “conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in” the NFL.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has entered a not guilty plea to charges of soliciting prostitution at a Florida massage parlor, and also has hired a close friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a lawyer in the case, court records show.

Kraft’s local lawyer, Jack Goldberger, also has requested a non-jury trial for two misdemeanor counts facing the 77-year-old billionaire in Palm Beach County Court, according to a filing there. The so-called bench trial that Kraft wants would have a judge acting as both judge and jury in his case.

Last year, Burck was hired by Bush to lead a legal team that reviewed documents from his administration before they were released to the Senate committee reviewing Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Burck also represented President Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, Don McGahn, in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probes, and crafted the controversial strategy of having McGahn spend more than 30 hours talking to Mueller’s investigators.